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Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by wayneftw »

samatman wrote: post #135
lostmsu wrote: post #91

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That whole thing is temporary until 2021 when other companies will get a chance to use 5nm fabs.

Don't count on it. Apple's mobile chips have been consistently the best in the business. When the A14 was released, the second fastest mobile chip you can buy became... the A13. Is this unsurmountable? Obviously not, it's excellent engineering, not a pact with the Devil. But you can't just hand-wave it away either, Apple's silicon is the one to beat, and they have a head start.

You can only run Apple’s awful software platforms on Apple Silicon so they’re only competing with themselves and for the few people who actually run macOS in the case of the new Macbooks.

Even if the rest of the PC industry never goes to ARM, Apple’s market share won’t change more than one measly percent IMO.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

sdevonoes wrote: post #289
II2II wrote: post #245

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> And before "have you tried this *nix distro??" comments appear, they are still too hard to setup and nowhere near as user-friendly for most people on an everyday basis. Uh, no. There are many reasons why people don't use Linux. The easy of setup and use lines are pure nonsense. Many Linux distributions have been easier to setup and use since at least the introduction of Ubuntu, and perhaps earlier. Just pop in the…

> As someone who has been using Linux for decades, I find the setup and user friendliness of something like Windows far inferior to to Linux. Yes, part of that is due to familiarity. On the other hand, some of it is inherent due to there being fewer restrictions with open source software. Non-tech people don't want (or don't know how) to "setup". The most user-friendly setup won't ever beat "no setup" (e.g., macOS).…

> Non-tech people don't want (or don't know how) to "setup". The most user-friendly setup won't ever beat "no setup" (e.g., macOS).

I don't like this line of thinking because it is condescending. More importantly though, there are plenty of competent technical users like myself that would love to be using an open operating system but are fed up with dealing with the systemic problems Linux Desktop has that its developers and community keep papering over and pretending don't exist.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by scns »

qiqitori wrote: post #286
fxtentacle wrote: post #159

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Setting up Ubuntu was easy enough. But the file manager locks up regularly, switching between multiple windows of the same app with alt+tab doesn't work reliably, and I actually had to Google how to create a new folder. The stock picture viewer is lacking information such as ICC profile and when I installed the recommended Gimp, it was a mess of windows and the save dialog was horrible. I suffer through all of it bec…

You can activate single-window mode in Gimp under Windows -> Single-Window Mode. I would generally recommend Kubuntu over Ubuntu -- it seems like Gnome aims for minimalism somehow, and has thrown out a lot of functionality that used to exist, and generally tends to emulate OSX for a lot of things. (E.g., OSX doesn't do alt-tab for multiple windows of the same app either IIRC.) BTW, Kubuntu's default image viewer woul…

"You can activate single-window mode in Gimp under Windows -> Single-Window Mode."

Thank you sooo much.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by amalantony06 »

eznzt wrote: post #276
zanny wrote: post #178

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Good thing said hacker culture spent 15 years buying inflated laptops and desktops from them ultimately for convenience to give them the market presence to do this in the first place. Its the same thing with Windows. People will preach all day that they won't make any personal sacrifices to try to avoid feeding literal cancers that are eating the software industry and are shocked when said all consuming voids take aw…

And what do you expect us to do, install Linux and spend days configuring the touchpad? Computers are a tool we use to do our work. Setting up the computer cannot become a job by itself.

This is not the case any more. A few months ago I migrated out of the MacOS ecosystem and got myself a Thinkpad X1 Carbon. I run Fedora on it. It works seamlessly just like MacOS did on a Macbook. Haven't had a single hardware compatibility issue till date.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by mixcocam »

It's not just the hardware which is not yours. This also destroys the idea of the "stored program" introduced by Von Neumann. Which I would argue is a bigger loss.

It's not that the piano is not really mine it's that the sheet music is no longer really mine which is a travesty.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by [deleted] »

danuker wrote: post #316
stkdump wrote: post #163

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> We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where that got us. I didn't. I encouraged friends and family to ditch IE for Firefox and nowadays I encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox. I never cared that Chrome was a little faster for some time. One person that only uses the (very old and underpowered computer) for mail and printing documents I helped install Linux (not Ubuntu ;)) a…

> encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox You should probably start advising that they ditch Firefox for IceCat. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html

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Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

Un1corn wrote: post #129
arcticbull wrote: post #124

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Every company I've worked at for the last 10 years has developed exclusively on macOS. Linux is fine, but it doesn't just work, and it needs to in order to gain a foothold not just in the developer community but with the general public -- that's the lesson Android has taught us. Until it does it will not budge the numbers. It just won't. The real apologism here comes from the Linux community, who believes that by vir…

Have you really used a desktop Linux desktop recently? Sure it might have some problems but Fedora for example is in no way "a distant third in usability". I haven't used MacOS for a couple of years but I can say for certain that Linux is not that far behind Windows and sometimes even ahead. I think the main problem is lack of application support but specifically for developers most applications are already there.

> Have you really used a desktop Linux desktop recently?

Someone has to say this literally any time someone mentions problems with Linux Desktop, along with "it works for me", "my grandma uses it!", "you just have to buy the right hardware", and "you're using the wrong distro". It is incredibly tiring.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by m4rtink »

jrib wrote: post #338
zanny wrote: post #178

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Good thing said hacker culture spent 15 years buying inflated laptops and desktops from them ultimately for convenience to give them the market presence to do this in the first place. Its the same thing with Windows. People will preach all day that they won't make any personal sacrifices to try to avoid feeding literal cancers that are eating the software industry and are shocked when said all consuming voids take aw…

Next laptop for me is going to be from a company that explicitly supports linux. Probably dell or lenovo. A lot of people like to rag on Ubuntu. I agree with some of the criticisms. But the one thing they have done right is broker partnerships with hardware vendors like dell and lenovo. https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/overview/cp/linuxsystem... https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-laun...

Fedora on Lenovo laptops as well: https://fedoramagazine.org/lenovo-fedora-now-available/

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

damnencryption wrote: post #114
rsanheim wrote: post #103

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You pointed out a core problem here, and a common blindspot with the HN crowd: > continuing to use Apple/Google/Microsoft That is probably 98%+ of devices that most typical people use for everyday computing, across phone, laptop, and desktop. Whether it is an android device, an iPhone, a Dell laptop or a new M1 macbook you are beholden to a corporation that doesn't care about privacy. I would argue that Apple cares a…

> And before "have you tried this *nix distro??" comments appear, they are still too hard to setup and nowhere near as user-friendly for most people on an everyday basis. This isn't true. This perception continues to hurt the Linux community along with others. Use a properly supported -buntu distro and you are good.

> This isn't true. This perception continues to hurt the Linux community along with others.

The continual denial, constant evangelism, and needless condescension, which I have watched for 20 years now, is what hurts the Linux Desktop community.

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